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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
AMERICAN HISTORY.


Acknowledging Congress to Provide for
Searching Foreign Libraries.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Sherman,
President pro tenn, yesterday laid before
the Senate a letter from the Secretary of
State, transmitting copies of memorial
signed by representatives of several his
torical societies and by many eminent men
of letters of the United States setting forth
the great value and Importance Of full
and accurate digest and catalogue of the
numerous documents found in public and
private archives of Europe relating to
the early history of the United States,
and especially the period between the
treaty of Paris in 1868, by which Great
Britain acquired from France title to the
Northwestern Territories of America, and
the treaty of peace between the United
States and Great Britain in 1888; that Mr.
Ben jamin Franklin Stevens, citizen of
the United States residing in London, has,
during several years of careful research
and under exceptional advantages,
prepared a descriptive catalogue of
over ninety-fve thousand separate
papers found in the archives of diff
ferent European countries, and that this
initial and incomplete list shows the value
of the substantially complete list which
they ask Congress to authorize and pro-
vide the means for. The Secretary COM
mends the subject to the attention of Con-
gress. The memorials accompanying the
Secretary's letter are signed by host of
prominent men.
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a DARING CRIME.

Eight Armed Robbers Board a Texas g.
Pacific Traiu, Intimidate the TrafbHleTl
and Plumber the Express and Mail Cars
of a Large Sum.
Fort WORTH, Tex, Jan. 24.-Two masked
men boarded the engine Of the eastbound
train. on the Texas & Pacific railway just
as it pulled out from Gordon station az
three o'clock yesterday morning. Draw
ing revolvers on the engineer and fire
man, they ordered them to go On
until a trestle two miles east of the
station was reached. Here they compelled
the engineer to stop the train in such
way that the baggage, express and maii
cars We're on the road bed, while the pas
senger cars were on the trestle and the
passengers could not leave them, six
masked men who had been waiting at
this point guarded the train, and the
eight robbers went through the ex-
press car, getting all the money packages
and valuables, and through the mail
bags, taking all the registered packages,
twenty-eight in number They then left
the train and rode away without molesting
the passengers. The Pacific Express Com
pany refuse to say how much their loss is,
and the reports vary from $4,000 to $4,000.
The value of the registered mail is, OF
course, unknown. Thus far no clue to the
robbers has been obtained.
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REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

Two Children Carried a Quarter of a Mile
Through Sewer Under the Town of
Niagara FaIls-Rescued Alive.
NIAGARA FALLS, Can, Jan. pa sewer
quarter of mile in length running under
this town forms part of the bed of Muddy
creek. During thaws in winter the creek
is swollen into a rushing river of large vol
ume which empties into the Niagara
river over the precipice near the whirlpool
rapids This river was running fifteen
miles an hour Saturday evening when
Bertha Farrell, aged four years, who was
seated in a hand-sled, slit into it. Her sis
ter, Blanche, aged ten, jumped in after
her, and both were swept into the
sewer A rush was made for the other
end of the sewer, and men secured by
ropes jumped into the water and waited
for the children to appear Bertha came
first, under water, and Blanche followed
on top. When taken out both were appar-
emily lifeless, but after much difficulty
they were resuscitated. The children were
in the water ten minutes, most of the time
submerged
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ADvIoEs of the Goth from London say
that the steamer Brentford, from New
port for Malta, had been wrecked, and that
all on board but one were lost.
In the Australian heavens a comet of the
first magnitude appeared on the Dist.
THE death of Lord Chesterfield occurred
in London on the 21st at the age of sixty
five years.
In Buenos Ayres cholera was raging to
a fearful extent on the ed, and business
generally had been suspended.
A BRITISH steamer and Chinese trans
port collided on the 22d near Shanghai, and
one hundred Chinese soldiers and several
officers were drowned.
THE military preparations in Austro-
Hungary continued undated on the oath.
In event of mobilization three great armies
would be formed, each corps having no
less than 600 men, the commanders of
which had already been designated.
QUEENSLAND was swept by cyclone on
the Oath, accompanied by an extraordinary
rainfall. Many persons were drowned
ToNQUIN advices of the oath say that
Colonel Brissaud had carried the rebel
position at Mikae Than-Hoa and that five
hundred insurgents were killed. The
French were pursuing the rebels.
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DIVORCE REFORM.

Petitions Presented to the House Asking
National Supervision Over Loose Mar
riage Laws.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ga petition was
presented in the House Saturday, in which
Congress is asked to take some action as to
loose divorce laws in the States. The
friends of the National divorce reform are
about to press again upon Congress the
necessity for the passage of the measure
providing for the collection Of statistics
relative to marriage and divorce in all
the States and Territories This measure
passed the Senate in the last Congress, but
was not acted upon in the House. The Ma
tional Divorce Reform League was organ
lied in January, 1861, and its membership
includes distinguished representatives of
the various Christian bodies. The object of
the league is to promote an improve
ment in public sentiment and legis-
lation on the institution of the fam
lily, especially as affected by exist
ing evils relating to marriage and
divorce. The gathering of statistics of
divorce, (which the league has so far with its
limited resources been able TO effect shows
a most alarming condition of affairs. The
loose marriage and divorce laws which dis
grace the statutes of some of the States
have caused an unparalleled increase of di-
vorces. The league has done good work
since its organization and through it's eff
forts two or three of the New England
States have modified their divorce laws.
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BLOWN TO ATOMS.


Explosion of the Boiler o. PASSENGER
Locomotive Near Carmi, ILL.,. While the
FFaffi Is IN Hfotion-Two Persons AAAAo
and seTeraf Seriously Injured.
CARM1, Ill, Jan. 24.-Just as the Louis
vile g. Nashvii5 passenger tram nao
whistled for Hawthorne, four miles east Oh
Carmi. at 2:35 a. M. yesterday the boiler Oh
the locomotive burst scattering the en-
CINE in fragments over an acre OF ground
and wrecking the train. Two persons
were killed and number OF others m
iured. The names of the killed are: Will
lam Hansacker, the engineer, and ROBERT
GRAY. of West Salem, Wis. passenger.
Those injured were L. Ballet, OF Evans
vile, Ind. H. R. Ridgeway, OF Utoklat d
t.; C. L. Wagner, express messenger;
- Clark. mail agent, and the cOt0reo
porter. name unknown. Rdgeway's IN
iuries are of so serious character that his
life is despaired of.
The front of the locomotive was olowH
out, the boiler wrecked, the cow-catcher
blown off, and even the bell shattereo 10
fragments py the explosion. The rest OF
the engine was nearly buried in the SOFT
brown sand of the road-bed. The Tag
gage and mail car and the two pas
seager cars were thrown some distance
from the track, while the Pullman
sleeper-the MOntezuma-wast tipped on one
side, falling partially on the bed. The
coaches were wrecked, their trucks torn
from Under them, and fragments OF Them
scattered with the baggage and mail III
every direction. An unknown corpse was
included in the contents of the baggage
car.
The dead bodies of the engineer and fire
man were found lying near the wreck Oh
the engine. Engineer Hansacker received
| = terrible cash across the back of the head
The back of Gray's head was crushed in,
his left hip mangled and his left arm
| broken.
The accident will be an expensive one to
the company. The explosion was doubt
less caused by lack of water. Very curl,
Ously, the clock on the engine continued
running an hour after the wreck.
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LATER.

Hon. PHILETUs SAWYER was reelected
United States Senator by the Wisconsin
Legislature on the 25th, the vote being:
Senate-Sawyer (Rep.), %; Winans
(Dem.), 5; Cochrane G.abor), l. House.
Sawyer, IS; Winans, 81; Cochrane, s.
TIE ice in the Susquehanna river near
Lock Haven, Pa, was on the 25th piled
thirty feet high for distance of three
miles.
Elk GOVERNOR w. B. BATE (Dem) was on
the 25th elected United States Senator by
the Tennessee Legislature
THREE masked men at Richmond, Tex,
captured the ticket agent of the Santa Fe
road on the 25th and forced him to open the
safe, which contained q, 235 in cash.
THE National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton commenced it's nineteenth annual con-
ventlon in Washington on the 25th.
A FREsHET in the Mohawk Valley, near
Utica, N. Y, did great damage on the 25th.
Two BALLOTS were taken for Senator by
the Indiana Legislature on the 25th the
result being: Turpie (Dem) rs; Harrison
(Rep), II; Allen (Labor), 4.
EXCITEMENT was occasioned ON the 18th
among the golfers throughout Scotland
by strike of three thousand miners at
Airdrie for an advance of shilling per
day.
THE circulation of the standard silver
dollar is steadily decreasing. The number
outstanding on the 25th was IS, go, 267.
AN immense coal-breaker at Plymouth,
Pa, was destroyed by fire ON the 25th,
causing loss of 100000.
SPEAR S. HoLLINGswoRTH, ex-county
treasurer of Knox County, Ind, who is a
defaulter for $4,000, and fed to Canada,
returned to Vincennes on the 25th and
gave himself up.
JOHN NJ LAIRD, of the Greensburg Star,
one of the oldest editors in Pennsylvania,
died on the 18th, aged eighty-six years.
FRANK HOLMES, of Pentwater Mich, was
devoured by wolves in Delta County on the
25th, but he k lied five of the brutes before
he met death.
OK the 25-h $50 girls, employed in the
Elizabeth On. j. cordagc works struck
against reduction of wages. Their action
threw nearly 600 other hands out of work.
CHOLERA made its appearance on the 18th
on the Gillian frontier, and great excite
ment existed in consequence.
In the United States Senate on the 25th
a petition was presented in favor of letting
the people of the District of Columbia vote
on the question of the manufacture and
SdIe VI Intoxicating liquors. "A Dill was III
PRODUCED to amend the Oleomargarine act.
The proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton granting suffrage to women was de-
feated by vote of 81 to 16. Several bills
Tor public buildings were passed, and
amendments to the Sundry Civil AppTo-
priation and Agricultural bills were intro
dueed. Charles B. Farwell took his seat as
Senator from Illinois. In the House the
report declaring vacant the seat of Mr..
Pirce (Rep.). Of Rhode Island, was adopted.
The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
reported,
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS.
second session.


THURSDAY, Jan 21--In the Senate . pc
tltlon was presented from merchants OF
st. Louis for the repeal Of the internal
revenue laws. Bills were reported favor
ably for the completion of the monument
to Mary, the mother of Washington, and
for the immediate transportation of dutiable
goods. The conference report or the
Electoral bill was agreed to with
out division. In the House bills were re-
ported favorably for the special distribution
Of seeds in the droughtstricken counties of
Texas; for the admission of Washington
Territory as State; for the suppression
Of the opium traffic; for the completion of
Washington, at Fredericksburg, and to in
crease to twenty dollars a month the rate
OF pension for total deafness. A bill was
introduced appropriating 100000 for the
relief of the depositors in the Freedman
Savings Bank. The Interstate Commerce
bill was further discussed, and the Senate
bill relating to patents, trademarks and
copyrights was passed.
FRIDAY, Jan. 21.-In the Senate Mr..
Colquitt presented a petition from the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of
the District of Columbia, charging the
gambling houses and brothels. Mr.. Spoon
er was appointed on the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death Of General Logan
Numerous petitions were presented for an
amendment of the Oleomargarine law, and
for the repeal of the internal revenue laws.
After long debate on the British extra
dition treaty the Senate adjourned to the
oath. In the House the Interstate Com
merce bill Gas passed by the Senate) was
passed by vote of 219 ayes to Al nays. A
resolution was presented calling upon the
President for information in regard to the
deprivation inflicted in certain Canadian
ports on American fishing vessels. At the
evening session twenty pension bills were
passed.
SATURDAY, Jan. 22.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House the District
of Columbia Appropriation bill was
reported, the bill increasing the rate of
pension allowed for total deafness to
twenty dollars a month was further dis
cussed a petition for National divorce
law was presented, and IN committee of
the whole the River and Harbor bill was
considered.
MONDAY, Jan. II. - Bills were passed
IN the Senate providing that post
offices of the third class shall not be
changed to fourth class where the gross
receipts amount to $500 year, and au-
thOrizing the President to take retaliatory
measures against Canadian fishermen
whenever American vessels shall be
abridged in the enjoyment of their rights
under the treaty. The credentials of
Charles B. Farwell Gll) and Cushman
K. Davis (Minn.), Senators-elect, were
received and placed on file In the
House bills were introduced: Proposing a
constitutional amendment changing the
time for the assembling of Congress to the
first Wednesday of January of each year;
to provide for joint celebration by the
sixteen American Republics in 1889 in honor
of the centennial of the constitution of the
parent Republic--the United States The
River and Harbor bill was further consid-
nrnd
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SENATOR EDMUNDs. and there was only
one answer to that question. The question
here, Mr. Edmunds insisted, was not
Question of war, but a question of counter
vailing regulations which all nations have
resorted to long before war, and which
usually never come to war;
Senator ingalls, was not entirely satisfied
with Senator Edmunds' explanation, and
went on belaboring England for having al
ways been ruff1an and coward. Her his
tory for centuries had been a record of
crime against the human race-in ireland,
in Scotland in Wales, against the Roman
Catholics, against the Beers in South At
RIGA, against the Hindoos and Chinese.
Wherever there had been feeble, weak
or helpless nation Great Britain had been
there for purposes of rapacity and plum
der. Her ruling classes were unfriend-
~ to this country The memory of
two defeats ranked in the breasts of En-
glishmen England cheered the South
with false hopes of recognition and injured
the North by violations of neutrality.
There were few Americans who do not re-
greet Waterloo, and for his part, in con-
GLIDING, he said he was glad to hear of the
Interpretation placed on the proposed legis-
lation by the Senator from Maine that so
far as he is concerned it is to be declara-
ton to Great Britain that she will persist
further at her peril.
Senator Hoar (Mass.) followed in sup
port of the bill. He regarded the attempt
by Canada tc enforce upon Us certain pol.
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icy as being one or the most emphatic and
haTant acts of hostility that could be COM
United without actual war. He did not un-
dsstand the object OF this bill 10 bring
about war or NV diplomacy or negotia=
tioa.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) Thought it was
moi beeomingao was it necessary to make
thieats. There was no war in this meas
ure, but if the troubles were allowed to go
on there could be war II them, and war be-
You'd the control of Congress.
Senator Evarts IN. " argued in sup
port of the bill, which was not in the ma
ture of menace or tending at all in that
direction.
Senator Hale (Me.) earnestly favored the
bill. The situation for the past year had
been simply intolerable. Deliberate and
predetermined aggressions had been per-
sisted in such as had never been submitted
to since the infancy of the republic.
Senator Vest (Mo.) said he would vote
for the bill because it contained a provis-
tio,,- = H>-----1---+ ----17 l-e---a lisnrn-
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FROM WASHiNGTON.

THE National Board of Trade adopted a
report at its session in Washington on the
Goth recommending the enactment Of a
National bankrupt law and Endorsed the
Government postal telegraph proposition.
THE Secretary of the Treasury estimated
on the Goth that the cost of collecting the
customs revenues for the next fiscal year
would be sc, 5&0S79
AT the session of the Union Veterans
Union in Washington on the goth M. A.
Dillon, of Washington, was elected Com
mander-in- Chief for the ensuing year.
The Interstate Commerce bill, which
has passed both houses of Congress, pro-
vides against discrimination or favoritism
in the transportation of passengers or
freight on railroads; forbids charge for a
short haul in excess of that made for the
full length of the route; makes unlawful
the pooling of freight or division of earn
ings; prescribes the publication of rates,
and imposes a maximum fine of 5000 for
the violation of any of these provisions.
There are to be five commissioners, ap-
pointed by the President at salaries of
$500 EACH
In the United States there were 276 bust
ness failures, and % in Canada during the
seven days ended on the 21st, against to-
tai OF 1928 in the previous seven days.
THE death of the wife of Senator Voor.
hees, of Indiana, occurred at Washington
on the evening of the 21st after an illness
of four days. The remains would be taken
to Terre Haute for interment.
AT twentysix leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
S1,0O9,0O5, 1888 against $9S2, 91O,6OO, the pre-
v.ous week. AS compared with the cor.
responding week of 1886, the decrease
amounts to $50 per cent.
THE Secretary of the Treasury called
1851, 900 in three per cent. bonds on the
22d, leaving exactly $40, 100000 outstanding
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made a very lmpas-
ng the Canadian au-

He lntlmated very SENATOR FRYE.
plainly that the proposed legislation was
desired by the President and members of
his Cabinet.
Senator Frye particularized many of the
outrages to which American fishing yes
sells had been subjected, and declared that
the British Government knew the utter
inhumanity of many of these cases, and
knew that outrages had been committed in
violation of law, as well as in violation of
good neighborhood The Senator quoted
from a recent statute passed by the
Dominion Government in still further
hostility to American fishermen, and
claimed that by its approval the Brit
ish Government had blasted the hope
that it would do what was fair and just in
the premises. During the last 300 years
Great Britain had never permitted the
right of another to stand in the way of her
progress. American people knew their
power, and would not humiliate themselves
and do violence to their conscious pride by
resorting to little miserable tricks and out
RACES by way of retaliation. The Commit
tee on Foreign Relations sought simply
that the President of the United States
should be empowered to close American
ports against any fishermen, or all fisher
men, against any merchant vessel, or all
merchant vessels He believed that the
President had at heart the honor and dig
nifty of the great republic over which he
presided. He believed that the President
was in favor of protecting the rights of
every American; aye, more, he believed
that he was an honest man, and that if this
law were passed the power which it would
put into his hands would be used for the
protection of American rights.
Senator ingalls, again took the floor and
said he understood the Senator from Name
to say these transactions had proceeded to
to the very frontier of amicable solution.
He then asked Senator Edmunds Vt.)
whether he wanted this bill to settle the
trouble by negotiations or by fight.
Senator Edmunds said by neither, and
IL i IL
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THE EAST.

On the 2lst Mr.. and Mrs. Litherly and
daughter, of Eliot, Me-, were fatally pois-
oned by eating canned corn beef
UP to the 21st there had been one hun
dred and fifty lives lost in the construction
of the new Croton aQueduct near New York
City
AT Niagara Falls two children slid into
swollen sewer on the ed which runs
under the town and empties into the river
near the whirlpool. They were ten min
utes in making the dark passage, but were
rescued by men at the outer end, secured
by ropes. Although apparently lifeless,
the little ones were resuscitated.
On the 22d the British steamer Gram
brook, en- route from Newport Eng, to
Philadelphia, was given up as lost with
her crew of thirty men.
On the ed the strike of the twenty-five
hundred employees in Lorillard's tobacco
factory at Jersey City, n j., came to an
end
The Schuylkill river above Reading, Pa,
was gorged for miles on the oath The
water had submerged the surrounding
country, and was sweeping away fences
and drowning cattle.
Four steel boilers exploded in the works
of a steel and iron establishment near Allie
gheny City, Pa, ON the oath, destroying the
works and killing two men.
AT Rynd Farm, Pa, the ice gorge was
two miles long and fifteen feet high on the
24th. The water was rapidly rising and the
flats were already submerged. The lower
part of Oil City would be flooded if the
gorge was not broken.
The death of General Charles P. Stone,
better known as Stone Pasha, occurred in
New York on the Oath. He served in the
Mexican and civil wars, and in 1870 held
the rank of Brigadier- General in the
Egyptian army. He was an engineer, and
his last work was the construction of the
Liberty pedestal in New York harbor.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED men ard girls in
E. S. Higgins & Co.'s carpet factory at
New York struck on the Gath because GER
tain employees had been discharged
AT Buffalo, n. Y, flood on the 24th did
great damage in the Thirteenth ward, and
caused suspension of the natural-gas sup
ply of the city.
THE dwelling of H. L. Ross, at Fern
City, Pa, was destroyed by tlre on the
oath, his four children perishing in the
flames.
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A WATER FAMINE.
Much Suffering Reported from Many Coun'

Much Suffering Reported from Many Coun-
ties in Illinois.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 22-Advices from
various parts of the State tell of great suf-
fering from lack of water. Many wells
rounding country are dry. The latest in
dustry in the vicinity consists of cutting ice
in the creek and selling it for seventy-fve
cents load Water is so scarce in Bureau
County that cattle in many neigh borhoods
are suffering severely for the lack of it.
The public wells of Atlanta, which have
nearly gone dry, are being filled with
water drawn from coal shaft in the neigh
borhood. The water from the shaft is used
by many hundreds of people, farmers for
miles around going there with boxes and
barrels for supply.